Overfishing is decimating some of their prey species, climate change is shifting their resources and imperiling their habitat, meanwhile pollution, such as oil spills, are putting even healthy colonies at risk.
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More little penguins tasted freedom last week after they were cleaned of oil from this year's spill in New Zealand. The October spill, which was caused by a grounded cargo ship, left over two thousand oil-covered birds dead and hundreds in rescuers...

The endangered Little Penguin population at Manly is threatened with extinction but there are things that can be done to save it's environment at Manly including:
- Protect the habitat and limit further development.

lack of sea ice due to rapid climate change is good news for the whales in the short term, providing them with much krill, but in the long term its bad news for them and everything else in the Southern Ocean that depends on krill

Tristan da Cunha Wednesday 6th April, 2011: After seven days at sea, a five-member specialist team has arrived on Tristran da Cunha to lend their expertise to cleaning the thousands of Northern Rockhopper Penguins affected by the oil spill

A new condition is causing many penguin chicks to lose their feathers, with some victims dying as a result of the mysterious problem, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.The condition, called "feather-loss disorder," appears to have emerged....